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PCS members vote to fight for HMRC to retain Bootle presence alongside the Regional Centre in India Buildings Autumn General Meeting agrees to battle for additional Bootle centre Political support from Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Peter Dowd At their Autumn General Meeting, members of PCS Bootle Taxes Branch voted to fight for a … More Battle for Bootle Campaign Relaunched

As Chancellor George Osborne delivered his latest round of cuts, workers and residents in Bootle marched in defence of jobs. The demonstration was called by the Battle for Bootle, a campaign set up to unite members of the PCS union and the local community against the proposed closure of HM Revenue & Customs offices in … More Defiant Bootle campaign marches for jobs as Osborne delivers cuts Budget

Hundreds of supporters and dozens of MPs showed their support for the PCS campaign against HMRC office closures and job cuts. The rally outside parliament on 1 March to show solidarity with HMRC members was attended by hundreds of people, many holding PCS flags, who braved the wet weather. They heard from shadow shancellor of … More Hundreds show support for PCS campaign against HMRC cuts

The Battle for Bootle Campaign has called for a public demonstration on Wednesday 16 March, to coincide with the Chancellor delivering the Budget. At its first planning meeting the campaign group, which was set up to oppose plans to close all of the local tax offices, voted in favour of the protest as a way … More Budget Day Demonstration

PCS met with Meg Hillier MP, the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, to press the union’s concerns regarding the HMRC proposals. PCS have organised a drop in briefing session for MPs to take place 1st March at 2.30pm in parliament and in addition to that, the PCS parliamentary group have managed to secure cross … More Invite your MP to the PCS drop-in session

Several dozen Bootle workers and residents voiced their determination to fight for jobs and the local community at a recent public meeting held at Bootle Town Hall. The meeting was called to formally launch the ‘Battle for Bootle’ campaign, which was initiated by Bootle branches of the PCS union. The campaign is a response to … More Workers and residents vow to Battle for Bootle at public meeting

The newly launched Battle For Bootle campaign is holding a public meeting in Bootle Town Hall at 6.30pm on Wednesday 16 December. Following on from the recent announcement that HM Revenue & Customs is closing all of its offices in the Bootle area, as part of a wider move to new ‘regional centres’, there is an … More Defend jobs, defend Bootle – public meeting

Today (25 November) supporters of the Battle For Bootle campaign were among those who joined the anti-austerity protest outside the JobCentre in Bootle. The protest was staged to coincide with the Chancellor’s autumn statement, where he announced further cuts to public services. Although the government made a massive u-turn on tax credit cuts, austerity is … More Bootle protests against Spending Review cuts

Thursday 25 November, 1pm Stanley Road Jobcentre Plus, Bootle Bring flags and banners On Thursday 25 November, Chancellor George Osborne is expected to announce more cuts that will hurt working class people and communities. His Spending Review announcements will be met with protests nationwide. Advertisements

HMRC Announce a Decade of Disruption HMRC has now announced further details of its plans to cut the number of staff working for the organisation to 51,000 and reduce the number of locations at which the remaining staff are employed to 17. The location plans which HMRC propose to implement over the next decade, alongside … More PCS Group Executive statement on HMRC office closures